Truax v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1953 · most notably Bradley v. Commonwealth (1924), Bullington v. Commonwealth (1922)
33 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that the trial judge has a reasonable discretion in such case, but there- should always be good cause for introduction of testimony out of the regular order, especially where injustice may likely result therefrom. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ball v. Commonwealth
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.